Orin Gutlerner

Mr. Orin Marc Gutlerner is the founding director of Match Teacher Residency (and his initials are really OMG). Prior to coming to Match, Mr. Gutlerner directed Harvard’s Undergraduate Teacher Education Program and did teacher recruitment/training policy work for the Massachusetts Department of Education. He taught middle school in rural North Carolina for four years through Teach For America, back when it wasn’t so hard to get into TFA (1996-2000). He lives in Dorchester with his amazing wife and two brilliant kids, and he also coaches Match High School’s boys basketball team (2 league championships and counting). He earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin and a M.Ed. from Harvard.

MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – enable students around the world to take university courses online. This guide, by the instructors of edX’s most successful MOOC in 2013-2014, Principles of Written English (based on both enrollments and rate of completion), advises current and future students how to get the most out of their online study, covering areas such as what types of courses are offered and who offers them, what resources students need, how to register, how to work effectively with other students, how to interact with professors and staff, and how to handle assignments. This second edition offers a new chapter on how to stay motivated. This book is suitable for both native and non-native speakers of English, and is applicable to MOOC classes on any subject (and indeed, for just about any type of online study).